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[27] Goldschmidt passionately loved astronomy, and I have found among his papers, which his family left me, numerous observations and remarks which show how he loved the study of the sky. His greatest ambition had been, at first, to possess a small telescope, in order to make some observations, and the best day of his life was that on which he found one in the possession of a dealer in old stores. He hastened to direct it to the sky from his modest studio, situated in one of the most frequented streets of Paris (Rue de l’Ancienne-Comédie), above the Café Procope, formerly used as a rendezvous by the stars of literature. There, from his window, he discovered, in 1852, the 21st small planet, which received from Arago the name of Lutetia; then, in 1854, the 32d (Pomona); then, in 1855, the 36th (Atlanta); and afterward eleven others, all from his window. Having often removed in search of a pure atmosphere, he finally retired to Fontainebleau, where the forest offered him on all sides admirable subjects for painting; and here he died in 1866.